Football Club History Database - Southern Amateur League History

The Southern Amateur League is one of the largest in the World. It has nearly 20 divisions, but only 34 clubs! Each of the 34 clubs enters it's first team in the Senior Section (split into three divisions), a reserve team in the Intermediate Section and a third team in the Junior Section. Below that, a Minor section caters for fourth and lower teams. Teams can get promoted and relegated within their Section, but not across Sections. The F.C.H.D. currently only includes the three divisions of the Senior Section.

The league maintains a strict amateur ethos, many of its clubs are "Old Boys" clubs from long-established schools, or are representative teams from our major banks. Teams have to play teams in a strict heirarchical order of strength, with league titles witheld if the league is convinced that a club has strengthened one of it's teams in a lower division at the expense of a team in a higher division.

The league sits outside the National League System, but a representative side does compete in the FA Inter-League cup against teams from leagues within the NLS, and some individual clubs do compete in local competitions against teams from within the NLS. No clubs from the SAL currently compete in the main FA club competitions, the last to do so were West Wickham in 1996. West Wickham also share the record for the best FA Vase performance from an SAL side when they reached the third round in 1987-88, thus equalling Norsemen's performance in 1982-83.

Recent Senior Section Divisional Champions (Incomplete list)

Season	One	Two	Three
1969-70	Midland Bank	Kew Associatiob	Pearl Assurance
1970-71	Civil Service	Ibis	Old Bromleians
1971-72	Southgate Olympic	Barclays Bank	Old Esthameians
1972-73	Midland Bank	Old Westminster Citizens	Brentham
1973-74	Midland Bank	Norsemen	Carshalton
1974-75	Catford Wanderers	Old Bromleians	Old Esthameians
1975-76	Midland Bank	Barclays Bank	Merton
1976-77	Kew Association	Carshalton	South Bank Polytechnic
1977-78	West Wickham	Barclays Bank	East Barnet Old Grammarians
1978-79	Catford Wanderers	East Barnet Old Grammarians	Old Westminster Citizens
1979-80	West Wickham	Southgate Olympic	Old Bromleians
1980-81	Old Esthameians	Old Bromleians	Britannic House
1981-82	West Wickham	Old Parkonians	Old Stationers
1982-83	Crouch End Vampires	Lensbury	Barclays Bank
1983-84	Winchmore Hill	Old Stationers	Old Salesians
1984-85	West Wickham	Old Salesians	Old Actonians Association
1985-86	National Westminster Bank	Old Actonians Association	Ibis
1986-87	West Wickham	Old Parkonians	Brentham
1987-88	West Wickham	Old Actonians Association	Merton
1988-89	West Wickham	Midland Bank	East Barnet Old Grammarians
1989-90	West Wickham	Carshalton	Southgate Olympic
1990-91	West Wickham	Old Bromleians	Alexandra Park
1991-92	Old Actonians Association	Crouch End Vampires	Lensbury
1992-93	National Westminster Bank	Lensbury	Old Latymerians
1993-94	South Bank Polytechnic	East Barnet Old Grammarians	Old Parmiterians
1994-95	South Bank	Carshalton	Old Lyonians
1995-96	Old Actonians Association	Old Parmiterians	Old Salesians
1996-97	Old Parmiterians	Lloyds Bank	Midland Bank
1997-98	Norsemen	National Westminster Bank	Old Stationers
1998-99	Old Actonians Association	Old Bromleians	Alleyn Old Boys
1999-00	Old Actonians Association	Alleyn Old Boys	Broomfield
2000-01	Old Actonians Association	Broomfield	Old Lyonians
2001-02	Old Owens	Old Salesians	Nottsborough
2002-03	Old Salesians	Winchmore Hill	Bank of England
2003-04	Old Esthameians	Nottsborough	Kew Association
2004-05	Broomfield	East Barnet Old Grammarians	Old Wilsonians
2005-06	Old Owens	Alleyn Old Boys	Merton
2006-07	Nottsborough	Polytechnic	South Bank Cuaco
2007-08	West Wickham	Old Esthameians	Old Parkonians
2008-09	Nottsborough	Broomfield	Lloyds TSB Bank
2009-10	Nottsborough	East Barnet Old Grammarians	Old Parkonians
2010-11	Nottsborough	Norsemen	Old Westminster Citizens
2011-12	Old Salesians	Civil Service	Alexandra Park
2012-13	Nottsborough	Polytechnic	Old Garchonians
2013-14	Old Owens	Old Garchonians	N U F C Oilers
2014-15	Winchmore Hill	N U F C Oilers	Lloyds
2015-16	Polytechnic	Old Parkonians	HSBC
2016-17	Polytechnic	East Barnet Old Grammarians	Norsemen
2017-18	Polytechnic	Actonians Association	Carshalton
2018-19	West Wickham	Norsemen	Crouch End Vampires
2019-20	Season declared null and void
2020-21	Season declared null and void

The Southern Amateur archive website contains a full set of league tables for all divisions of the league, but we are not aware of the tables being published in book form.